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• Why You Might Need a Trip to the Cath Lab

  If you’ve ever visited a cardiologist, you may have seen signs for something called the “Cath Lab” and wondered what happens there.

• Breastfeeding Help: Why You Need a Lactation Consultant

  You might enter motherhood convinced you’ll breastfeed for several months. Next thing you know, you’re holding a hungry newborn and realize the all-natural, beautifully bonding, gold-standard feeding system is hard, maybe unbearably so.

• Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Eat Your Placenta

  If you’re pregnant and are considering eating your placenta after delivery, you may want to rethink it.

• Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy: Advantages of the DIEP Flap Procedure

  The past decade has ushered in major technical advancements in autologous breast reconstruction, which is done using a patient’s own tissue. The most common techniques include the use of skin, muscle, fat, or artificial implants to reconstruct the breast. The use of abdominal skin and fat has gained in popularity, offering patients a more natural look and feel, similar to that of the natural breast. Other advantages of using a patient’s own tissue in reconstruction includes: the avoidance of artificial breast implants, the body contouring that comes with removal of excess abdominal fat, and the possibility of restoring sensation to the new breasts.

• Why Sports Clearance Exams Don’t Replace Annual Physicals

  A common question parents have is whether their child needs an annual physical with their pediatrician if they’ve already had a sports clearance exam at school.

• Keep Your Cool! Avoid Heat-Related Illnesses This Summer

  With summer in full swing, everyone wants to spend time outdoors at the pool, beach or field, having fun. But hours of fun in the sun also can result in hours of hurt from heat-related illnesses.

• Cardiac Ablation Treatment for Heart Arrhythmias

  If you’ve ever felt that your heart skipped a beat or that your heart was thumping in your chest, you may have felt a heart arrhythmia, or an abnormal heart rhythm. While everyone can experience an abnormal heart rhythm once in a while, an irregular heart beat that occurs periodically could signal trouble.

• A Day in the Life of an Athletic Trainer for the Orlando Ballet

  As children, many little girls dream about being a ballerina. I’m fortunate enough to be a part of it with them.

• Dangers of Heatstroke Hit Home with Death of Former N.Y. Giants Player

  The recent death of N.Y. Giants player Mitch Petrus from heatstroke highlights the danger of heat-related illnesses — even in young, healthy people. With extreme heat across much of the country, it is essential to know how to recognize and stay safe from heat-related illnesses.

• Al Roker’s Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Prompts Question: When Did You Last Get Checked?

  Al Roker’s recent announcement of his prostate cancer diagnosis is a perfect example of why men in his demographic need to visit their doctor for regular exams. If cancer is found and discovered early enough, it can be managed and potentially cured. The red flag that arises during the routine screening and lab test concerns the PSA, or prostate-specific antigen, but there are also other tests that can be run with new technology to arrive at a diagnosis. For the many men who remain hesitant or anxious about a rectal exam and prostate check — especially African-American men who don’t obtain regular screenings and therefore die of this cancer in greater numbers — Roker’s diagnosis is a wake-up call with this message: Come in and get checked.